The animals at Olympic Game Farm are reportedly kept in grossly substandard conditions, affecting their mental and physical health. These include animals protected by the ESA, like lions who are forced to live in small and barren cages with no shelter from the cold, as well as gray wolves who cannot retreat from public view who pace back and forth in their cages and show other signs of stress.

Brown bears are also kept in inadequate cages without sufficient mental stimulation, and are harassed by visitors who are permitted to throw unlimited quantities of bread into their cages.

A visitor reported seeing a five-inch gash on one bear’s shoulder.

Visitors have observed and documented other injured and sick animals at the zoo, including a Siberian tiger limping with lameness in its back leg, likely from inadequate flooring.

Olympic Game Farm even continued to display another tiger, named Amadeus, while he was sick and dying.

In September, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sent Olympic Game Farm a notice of intent to sue the roadside zoo. The notice alleged violations of the ESA, the Washington Endangered Species Act, and state animal cruelty laws.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund offered to assist in transferring all animals to reputable sanctuaries at no cost to the zoo. The owners have failed to make improvements that would comply with the law, or to work with the Animal Legal Defense Fund on the animals’ transfer, resulting in the lawsuit being filed.

“No animal should have to live in these conditions, and the law agrees. Both the Endangered Species Act and Washington state animal protection laws make it illegal for Olympic Game Farm to keep animals in this inhumane manner,” Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Executive Director Stephen Wells said in a statement. “These animals deserve to live in sanctuaries capable of providing appropriate food and medical care, and a habitat sufficient to provide for healthy movement and social behaviors. We are determined to pursue every legal avenue to reach that result.”

The problems at Olympic Game Farm are sadly not unique. Throughout the United States, animals are kept at similar roadside zoos, which are able to operate due to a lack of enforcement of federal and state animal protection laws.

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